Starting tomorrow, March 16th, the GSA will be transitioning to a new grants policy. This policy will be available in our Points of Policy on the GSA website.

We will no longer have a lottery system for grants. If you would like your grant application to be considered in the lottery system, you must submit your application by the close of business today, March 15th.

Beginning tomorrow, grant applications will be considered through a review process. In each month, applicants will be selected based on financial and academic need by a review panel of their peers. Decisions will be made by the end of each month. Funding approved by these decisions will be available for use within the 120 days following the decision. The deadline for applications will be the 15th of each month. Therefore, if you want to use grant funds in May, you must apply by April 15th.

More information about the new policy will be forthcoming. If you would like to serve on the review panel for grants, please look for a call for reviewers which will go out soon.

Thank you,

GSA

Did you earn less than $54,000 in 2017? If you did, why waste your money on paid tax preparers when you can get your taxes done for free by IRS-trained and certified volunteers from VITA@UMBC?  Make an appointment at bmorefreetaxes.org or by calling 410-234-8008.  Just ask to be scheduled with UMBC and you’ll meet with UMBC volunteers at the Apartment Community Center across from Walker Garage.  Questions?  Contact us at VITA@umbc.edu.

Click the 'Website' button below for an FAQ on UMBC VITA, or click the 'Download Flyer' button for a PDF with more information. 

Dr. Christine Mallinson will be speaking at Baltimore's Light City 2018 - A Festival of Light, Music and Innovation, in the EduLab panel, on Wednesday, April 18 from 8am-noon. Her talk will be on Baltimore as an Incubator of Language Diversity -- including how her research with students at UMBC is helping make Baltimore a more linguistically inclusive place. Here is the link to register to attend:  

http://www.lightcity.org/innovation/edulab 

The Office for Academic & Pre-Professional Advising (OAPA) is currently recruiting new Orientation Advisors for Summer 2018 and we are interested in inviting graduate students to apply.

Orientation Advisors are responsible for educating new incoming students on degree requirements for their intended majors, informing them of university policies, and connecting them with appropriate department representatives which can result in the creation of strategic schedules for their first semester at UMBC.

We are currently accepting applications through May 4, 2018 for new advisors. Applications can be completed electronically and uploaded online at: http://advising.umbc.edu/facultystaff/orientation/orientation_upload/. I also attached an application and a flyer for this job announcement to this email. This will be a great opportunity for all graduate students but especially those who are interested in pursuing careers in academia.

 

All new advisors will be expected to attend a comprehensive training session on June 5th or 6th from 8:00am – 5:00pm

 

This is an invitation for all anthropologists, ethnographers, and researchers of culture!

The Department Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration & Policy as invited anthropologist Claudia Strauss to campus next week. Strauss is a cognitive anthropologist from Pitzer College who looks at personal meanings of cultural complexity primarily through research regarding work and class in the U.S.  While she is here, she will be giving a lecture as part of the Social Science Forum and will also be offering a methods workshop:

1) Social Science Forum: Wednesday, March 14, from 7-8pm on the 7th Floor of the Library. Dr. Strauss will speak about "Achieving the American Dream or Not: Immigrants’ Narratives Following the Great Recession" (See flyer attached)

2) Methods Workshop: The Anthropology Program will be hosting an informal Method Workshop during "free hour" the day of the Forum: Wednesday, March 14, from 12-1 in PUP 204 (lunch provided) for faculty and students who are especially interesting in analyzing interview material or other transcripts. Dr. Strauss has agree to speak about methods she has developed to extract and analyze culture in interviews and other statements. These include ways to get at conventional discourses, links between personal experience and cultural models, and conflicting ideas within individuals and within social groups. These methods that examine the said as well as the unsaid allow her to examine the effects of layered cultural learning, use of culture by individuals, and different forms of power.

3) Dinner? A few of us may be taking Claudia out for a quick dinner before the Forum. Let Dr. Bambi Chapin know if you are interested in joining!